Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week three Boyd youths took direct action. Armed with a shotgun and a .22-cal. pistol, they visited Cockrell's chief sponsor. Mayor Willie Berle Horn, told him: "You get rid of Cockrell, or we will. And you'll be next." Answering a Horn call, Cockrell caught up with the boys in a grove of trees at town's edge, where farmers park their trucks to sell watermelons. There, in a wildly confused tussle, the shooting started. While frightened farmers dived under their trucks, Cockrell fell, shot three times with .22-cal. bullets...
After the number of loose burros topped 300, Mayor Adolfo Santocchi decided to act. One day last week his men rounded up 20 burros, loaded them on a truck and drove away. Twelve miles out from town the burros were set down in a green valley, sheltered by hills and watered by a cool stream. In an address to the town by soundtruck, Mayor Santocchi explained that he had sought out the valley as a refuge-suitably distant-"where our plateritos can live happily and in peace." As his men began rounding up the rest of the strays, the mayor...
...York Board of Rabbis promptly jumped on Jacobs' ruling as imposing a minority's moral theology on the majority; the National Councils of Catholic Women and Men and the Catholic Physicians' Guilds of New York sprang to the support of Dr. Jacobs. New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner bucked the question to the hospital department. "As a practicing Catholic," Wagner said, he is opposed to the use of contraceptives in city hospitals, but "this is a medical matter-I leave that to their judgment...
While rubbernecking in Manhattan in his billowy red robes of office and a three-cornered black hat, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, England, Fitzroy Chamberlain, dropped an unlikely footnote to history. Historians, said he, are hopelessly unjust in attributing the name America to Italian Mapmaker and Merchant Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512). The eponym in truth: a fine English lad named Richard Amerycke. In the Bristol view of history, Amerycke, a customs collector, saw to it that Italian Explorer John Cabot, who discovered Cape Breton Island in 1497 and claimed it for the British crown, received a pension from King Henry...
...Beat 'Em . . . In High Springs, Fla., ex-Mayor Juanita Easterlin, who last year campaigned unsuccessfully for re-election by charging that enforcement of the state liquor laws was lax in her area, was arrested as the ringleader of a big-time moonshining operation...